The new Nov/Dec issue of Skeptical Inquirer (http://bit.ly/3Jv4tKU) has my article, “Teaching Critical Thinking in Authoritarian Cultures” (p. 8). While most articles are free, not all are available to nonsubscribers. Unfortunately, mine is one of them. But check out the rest of the magazine for some great reading you won’t find elsewhere. A subscription isContinue reading “My Article in New Issue of Skeptical Inquirer”
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So You Like to Argue? Here’s Your Chance
Call for Abstracts – Arguing for Sport Formal debate has been a staple of fostering competency in critical thinking since … well, Plato’s time at least. By now, there are dozens of styles, with varying degrees of adversariality, conditions for winning and topical constraints. To many students, debate was a life-changing experience that had aContinue reading “So You Like to Argue? Here’s Your Chance”
“Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation”
Save 7pm ET June 28, 2025, to watch Professor Sander van der Linden as he describes the lab and field studies into the process called “prebunking,” which van der Linden says helps people cultivate cognitive antibodies in both simulated and real social media environments. He’ll also detail several interventions—developed and evaluated with public health authorities andContinue reading ““Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation””
Special Issue about Critical Thinking
I subscribe to Skeptical Inquirer: The Magazine for Science and Reason, a bi-monthly publication. It’s been around since 1976. Consider subscribing. It’s a bargain at $2.80/issue and $19.95/year for digital+print. My article about teaching critical thinking in authoritarian cultures is coming out in a few months. Here’s the link to this month’s issue with severalContinue reading “Special Issue about Critical Thinking”
Upcoming Talk on Critical Thinking
The Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) will host a talk by Dale Hample (U. Maryland), The Global Presence of Civility While Arguing, May 2, 1pm Eastern. Here is his description: “In company with a number of scholars, I have spent more than ten years collecting and reporting data on how people orientContinue reading “Upcoming Talk on Critical Thinking”
Check out this lecture on Friday 4/11/25 11am EDT:
Friendly Critical Thinking: Replacing Domination with Collaboration by Dr. M. Neil Browne Zoom link: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/7153464115 Retired after 53 years teaching critical thinking at Bowling Green University and consulting with dozens of universities, corporations, and governmental agencies, all seeking, as we all are, better beliefs, conclusions, and decisions. Table of Contents for Presentation: 1) Toward what end doContinue reading “Check out this lecture on Friday 4/11/25 11am EDT:”
Feb 14 Lecture: Critical Thinking Skills Among Students
The AILACT Speakers Forum February 14, 2025, 11:00 US Eastern TimeZoom Link: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/7153464115 “Mindware: A New Way of Thinking about Critical Thinking” By Prof. John Eigenauer Abstract: The general lack of critical thinking skills among students and the populace at large has long been lamented and substantiated. Books are legion about the brain’s fallibility, andContinue reading “Feb 14 Lecture: Critical Thinking Skills Among Students”
My Book Wins GOLD!
Many, many thanks to the Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE) for bestowing a GOLD award for my book, Critical Thinking Now! Practical Teaching Methods for Classrooms Around the World! The jacket copy states: Today’s curricula can (and should) incorporate critical thinking methods because they are the means by which people best understand, learn, andContinue reading “My Book Wins GOLD!”
Water Your Brain with Upcoming Critical Thinking Talks
The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) presents talks every first Friday. On January 10 at 1pm (ET) (this one was delayed), Catarina Dutilh Novaes will present Against ‘Reason Supremacism’ in Democratic Politics. Go to https://ailact.wordpress.com for lots of information and downloadabale access to the second edition of Studies in Critical Thinking J.Continue reading “Water Your Brain with Upcoming Critical Thinking Talks”
Critical Thinking in the Workplace
The skinny: Critical thinking is a strange bird: We all know it when we see it, but its definition is hard as heck to pin down. So, when employers say they want their employees to be critical thinkers, how’s that working out for them? This link to a 2024 article from Insight Assessment explains withContinue reading “Critical Thinking in the Workplace”
Critical Thinking Now! 